Catching A Falling Star
Shelly Mowery,
Mowery Cutting Horses, MareCare Inc.
“I rode in a rodeo parade in California in the early ‘80s, I was Miss Coors Rodeo,”
Mowery said. Katherine Ross, sultry star of The Graduate and Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid, was also riding in the parade. “They ran out of horses for people to
ride in the parade so they started putting people on bucking horses. They put me on
one but I’d been riding horses all my life. They put Katherine Ross on a bucking horse
and she hadn’t been riding horses all of her life. Probably, at one time the horse they
put her on was a horse that people rode. The night before that horse was bucking in
the bronc-riding competition.”
It wasn’t that the horse bucked with her. “Those horses only buck when they put a
flank strap on them, but we were going up an incline and it was getting pretty rough.
There were bands playing and people in the parade throwing candy, and baton twirlers … The horse Katherine was on got spooked and took off.”
Always a woman of action, Mowery went after Ross and the runaway bronc. Her
long-time friend, famed horseman Julio Moreno, who was riding beside Mowery in
the parade followed her heroic lead. The horse, with Ross still aboard, ran through a
marching band.
“We were on concrete, with sparks a-flyin’. Katherine had given up and threw
away the reins and was hanging on to the saddle horn for dear life. Julio went to her
left side and I was on her right; if I hadn’t the horse would have veered in that direction. We got the horse stopped. Ross was unscathed except perhaps for some frazzled
nerves and maybe a bruised ego.
“That night Katherine didn’t ride in the grand entry, and who could blame her?”
Mowery said. “Later in the evening she was in the announcer’s box and I went up
there and we chatted for a moment and she said, ‘Oh my gosh, thank you for what
you did. You saved my life.’”
The One That Got Away
Craig Swancy,
Mayor of the City of
Weatherford,
CEO of Craig’s Music
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PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY
“I’ve met a lot of famous people and
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Everybody has heard of Stevie Ray
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